Policy makers propose to promote healthy marriage among low-income unmarried couples by providing services to improve relationship skills. This article uses data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study to explore whether enhancing parents’ relationship skills may have spillover effects on parent-child relationships. Drawing on findings that relationship quality is positively associa...

In this study we examined the division of finances, the division of household tasks, relationship maintenance behaviors, sexual activity, monogamy, and conflict among same-sex couples who had had civil unions in Vermont, same-sex couples who had not had civil unions recruited from their friendship circles, and married heterosexual couples recruited from among their siblings. Married heterosexua...

In this paper we study the economic determinants of the joint retirement process of married couples. We propose a tractable dynamic discrete choice model for retirement decisions which allows for non-trivial saving behaviour. We estimate the model on a 1% sample of Danish couples of potential retirement age drawn from a population-based administrative register. The introduction and subsequent r...

In recent years, legislatures have imposed several types of guidelines restricting court discretion. Guidelines designed around ‘‘average’’ cases, however, can lead to problems for ‘‘nonaverage’’ situations. In the context of divorce, poorly designed child support guidelines may create an opportunity for a netwealth transfer in excess of the costs of children for ‘‘nonaverage’’ families and the...

Abstract We analyze couples’ joint decisions about emigration and labor force participation using survey data on Danish emigrants, combined with full population administrative data. Couples are most likely to emigrate if the male partner or both partners hold a college degree least neither of is educated. Probability that dual-earner couple emigrates increases primary earner’s income. In couple...

Evidence of public and private interest in programs designed to strengthen the institution of marriage and reduce the number of children growing up without both their parents is growing. Robin Dion addresses the question of whether such programs can be effective, especially among disadvantaged populations. She begins by describing a variety of marriage education programs. Although new to the so...

Various factors may influence matrimonial adaptability among couples, one of which is infertility. Hence, the present study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of excitement-focused therapy on increasing matrimonial adaptability of infertile couples. The present study was a quasi-experimental one. The sample in this study was composed of 12 couples (6 couples of infertile males and 6 co...

I examine the e ects of the introduction of the Spouse's Allowance to the Canadian Income Security system on the retirement behavior of couples. This policy intervention provides an excellent opportunity to investigate how income security programs a ect the timing of retirement. The structure of the Allowance also provides a view of how programs targeted at one spouse can a ect the behavior of ...

In recent years the distribution of work in Britain has "hollowed out", with a growth in the proportions of both "work-rich" and" work-poor" households. The growth in twoand zero-earner couples evident in cross-sectional snapshots has different implications for the distribution of family income (in long and short terms) according to whether more people are experiencing episodes of a given lengt...

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